Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-6950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i7-6950X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6950X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.